On Monday, Telangana Congress President A Revanth Reddy promised the residents of Banswada Assembly Constituency, Nizamabad, and Kamareddy districts that once Congress forms the government, it will extend the 12,000 minimum support price (MSP) for turmeric and reopen the Nizam Sugar factory within six months.
The seventh Nizam founded the Nizam Deccan Sugars Limited (NDSL), commonly known as the Nizam Sugar Plant, in 1937. It is located in the Telangana town of Bodhan in the Nizamabad district. Although it was once Asia's largest sugar factory, it was shut down many years ago.
In the united Andhra Pradesh, former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu privatized the factory. It was not revived despite Y S Rajasekhar Reddy's commitment to do so. During the campaign for a separate Telangana as well as during elections, the TRS had also pledged to revive the factory within 100 days of taking office.
For maize, he pledged 2,200 MSP, and for sugarcane, 4,000 MSP per quintal. As part of his padayatra, Revanth spoke at a street corner meeting in Banswada and claimed that Legislator Pocharam Srinivas Reddy began to disregard farmers after betraying his allegiance to CM K Chandrasekhar Rao. Pocharam Srinivas Reddy is the assembly's speaker at the moment.
According to the head of the TPCC, "KCR shut down the Nizam Sugar mill after coming to power if TDP President and then Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had sold 51% ownership in it." Both the factory's reopening and the farmers whose crops on 8,000 acres in the constituency were harmed by unseasonal rains in 2021 were not taken up by Pocharam Srinivas Reddy.
Revanth stated that Pocharam and KCR should both be removed from office. If farmers didn't pay their land tax, razakars used to steal everything they could get their hands on. "Now, the staff or bank employees, led by Pocharam son, are removing doors, computers, and other property from the children of farmers due to non-payment of loans. KCR's rule makes us think of the Razakars, claimed Revanth on Monday.
